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What It’s Like to Be an E.R. Doctor Desperate for Personal Protective Equipment

Why Do You Need Serious Protective Equipment For Serious Injuries?

As an athlete, you take your performance seriously. The same should apply to your protection. Get serious protective equipment for serious injuries.

Personal Protective Equipment? You bet your life!

If you work with powerful tools and other motorised devices, you need effective, safe protective equipment to keep you safe and sound when you are sawing, cutting, chopping and trimming.

Why Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) Matters

Hazards exist in every workplace. This is especially true in construction zones. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recommends the use of engineering or work practice controls to manage or eliminate hazards. When this is not feasible or does... Read More

How To Maintain Personal Protective Equipment

In the case of personal protective equipment (PPE), not only your livelihood, but your life, depends upon proper care and treatment of your safety gear.

Do Forklift Operators Need Protective Eyewear?

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a category that includes any type of clothing, accessories, or equipment that can help keep workers safe. It can be something they wear, such as a hard hat or work gloves, or something they carry such as a protective shield or fire suppression equipment.When it comes to PPE, employers want to make sure workers have everything they need to stay safe in the workplace. But there's such a thing as too much protection.When PPE gets in the way…

Falling Down on the Job?

They help fight the evils of sitting and, in theory, burn calories. But early research shows that users of work-based fitness equipment may want to use their spell-check more often.

15 Super Easy Protective Styles That Anyone Can Do

When protection becomes the risk for healthcare workers

A study shows that healthcare workers are contaminating themselves when taking off their personal protective equipment.

Medical workers show proper way to wear personal protective equipment

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is medical equipment such as gloves, goggles, headgear, masks and other articles of clothing that protects the wearer from infection.

Women and PPE: Finding the right fit

For personal protective equipment to adequately protect female employees, it must be designed so that they can fit into it. This article explores the challenges women workers still face regarding PPE, and asks them how they believe PPE can be improved.

Building Commitment to Safety: Embracing the Construction Hard Hat Makeover

For decades the construction industry has mandated the same personal protective equipment (PPE) to keep our workers safe. But just as design and construction technology progresses in our industry, so too should the critical equipment we rely on to protect our people.

Who Is Liable For Faulty Equipment?

A barge worker is injured by faulty equipment, but who is responsible when a machine becomes dangerous?

Eye Injury Prevention in Hazardous Workplace

According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2,000 workers sustain job-related injuries daily making eye injuries one of the leading hazards at the workplace. Don’t let that number scare you, with the proper personal protective equipment and safety procedure implementation the likelihood of eye injury can be reduced substantially. Below are some …

Is Your Home Playground Equipment Safe?

Learn how to prevent playground injuries by regularly inspecting your home playground.

Is Fall Arrest Equipment Too Good?

Experts discussed the differences between U.S. and international standards and the recent move to make some components strong enough to withstand much larger fall forces.

How Safer Equipment Reduces Employee Turnover

Learn more on how safer equipment and routine maintenance can help you reduce employee turnover and increase your bottom live over time.